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Has anyone ever used Views and gmaps to display data?

I am trying to query organization data, and map 10 of the nearest to whatever zipcode is entered.

example I enter 10001 and want the 10 libraries closest to me.

it's easy to turn the fields on and off in views, but I can't seem to get the location to work.

B.

Actually just noticed the demo doesn't have an API key (http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/setting/mapping?reset=1), but the idea is that you can do the search and then can map all or some of the resulting contacts on a google map from there.

bdanza:

if you do solve your problem, can you please post back your solution

I'd love to use that feature for the school to help facilitate car-pooling. i.e. give me the 10 closest school families who have kids in the middle school who live near me

lobo

I am going to have 5000 library records in civicrm, they are all going to offer varying levels of services.

Basically, what I am trying to do is build a full locator tool with out of the box tools,  if that doesn't work I will simply have to write it as a custom query.

basically I want to do this
http://www.fiveguys.com/locations.aspx?fAddress=20007&radius=5&units=mi

I was able to map with Views and OpenLayers. Actually I think I prefer this method over the "Profile" method in CiviCRM.

It's not too bad once you understand that OpenLayers is a circular reference to itself with two views. First one to get the data inline to be used as an overlay layer on the actual "map" view.

Let me know if you need more details.  Took me a while cause often times people have a basic understanding of the module when explaining it so those new to a module sometimes have to read extensively to understand how it works rather than the simple explanation I give above.

You should have a request from me for gtalk.